Dr Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera

📣Mental Health Awareness Month 2026📣 Remembrance on Mother’s Day💐 Today, on Mother’s Day, I am thinking about five women named FATIMA. 🌺Fatima, named in an 1813 notice, “carried off by a party of armed men” with her husband Adam and their one-year-old son, Fernando. 🌺Fatima, listed for sale in 1820 with her 5 children: two girls, ages 9 and 8, a boy about 6, and twin girls only 18 months old. 🌺Fatima, who fled bondage in 1841, seeking freedom with her two children, Rufus, age 5, and Rachel, age 2. 🌺Fatima, 26years old, a seamstress advertised for sale in 1854 with her two young sons, Robert, age 4 – “a smart boy”, and Thomas, age 2. 🌺And Fatima, 35 years old, described in 1855 as a “valuable servant, superior cook and washer,”; advertised in a “private sale” with her 15-year-old son, Edgar. Five women. One name. Generations of Black motherhood recorded through advertisements that treated mothers and children as property to be sold, pursued, insured, recovered, or returned. This is why remembrance is absolutely critical to our healing. The UN resolution adopted in March 2026 names the “exceptional gendered nature” of racialized chattel enslavement, acknowledging that African women and girls were subjected to sexual violence, forced reproduction, domestic servitude, and gender-specific forms of exploitation. On Mother’s Day, I am sitting with this truth. Because these women were not merely “servants,” “wenches,” “cooks,” “washers,” or “property.” They were mothers. They were wives. They were daughters. They were African/African-descendant women (likely of Muslim lineage). And yet, against extreme depravation, they mothered. They fed children, carried children, protected children, and tried—however they could—to keep something alive in a world designed to break every bond. Today, I remember the Fatimas. I remember the children whose names survived: Rufus, Rachel, Robert, Thomas, Edgar, Fernando. I remember the unnamed children. May Allah have mercy on them. May their names be restored with dignity. May their descendants know that they come from women who endured, resisted, and carried life under impossible conditions. Ameen.🤲🏾 -Dr. Kam (@drmamakam )

📣 Learning & Practice Lab Phase 3: Pre-Production 📅 Two Part Webinar on Thurs Apr 16 & Thurs Feb 23 | 1-2pm ET DAWG and Marwa Consulting, LLC invite filmmakers into Learning & Practice Lab Phase 3: Pre-Production. This two-part webinar is developed and facilitated by Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera. Ethical pre-production calls for identifying creative and decision-making partners who can deepen perspective, challenge blind spots, and reflect participants’ realities with care. Phase 3 asks a critical question: What must be designed now to ensure that care can be sustained under the pressures of production? Register by clicking the link in our bio!

📣📣📣 Save the Date: 2026 Black Muslim Psychology Conference (BMPC2026) December 17–19, 2026 Dakar + Gorée Island, Senegal 🇸🇳 There is a moment that lives between departure and return. A shoreline. A threshold. A place where names were erased and the faint yet defiant whispers of memory and joy remained. For centuries, the story of the Black Atlantic has been told through rupture—through what was lost, stolen, and scattered. And yet, across oceans and generations, something achingly beautiful endured as well. Faith endured. Knowledge endured. Community endured. In December 2026, we gather on that threshold of endurance and beauty. We gather as a diasporic people shaped by struggle, yes, but also by brilliance, devotion, and care. We come in relationship - with one another, with our West African kinfolk, and with the histories that bind us. Why? And why now? This is a milestone year: 💫 15 years of the Muslim Wellness Foundation(@mwfnational ) 💫 10 years of the Black Muslim Psychology Conference 💫 5 years of the Omar ibn Said Institute for Black Muslim Studies & Research (@said_institute ) So we mark this milestone with a return, a declaration and a commitment expressed by this year’s theme: Rasikh: What We Carry Forward🤲🏾📿 Rasikh names what is deeply rooted—what has endured beyond rupture. It asks us to consider not only what we have inherited, but what we are responsible for sustaining, shaping, and passing on. BMPC2026 will be a gathering of scholars, educators, clinicians, artists, faith leaders, and community members from across the diaspora—coming together to engage history, memory, healing, and the work of building forward. 📩 This is your invitation to save the date now—and to begin preparing your heart for the possibilities for remembrance, reconnection and reclamation. 🗓️ BMPC2026 — December 17-19, 2026 presented by Muslim Wellness Foundation, in partnership with Pillars Fund (@pillarsfund ) Save the date. More details to come. #BMPC2026 #Rasikh #WhatWeCarryForward #BlackMuslimWellness #BlackAtlantic

MWF TURNS 15!! 🎉 🥳 Fifteen years of listening, learning, growing and doing what it takes to care for our communities. Not just in crisis—but in the everyday work of healing, belonging, and faith. As we reflect on our theme: Rasikh - What We Carry Forward, we share some of the beautiful highlights of our journey! We invite YOU to share some of your reflections as well: 💡What has excited you the most about MWF and our trailblazing community programs and conversations? 💡What you have you learned over the last 15 years? 💡 What do you look forward to in our next chapter? IF THIS WORK HAS MOVED YOU, INSPIRED YOU, NOURISHED YOU — HELP US CARRY IT FORWARD. 📣Support Muslim Wellness Foundation and the Omar ibn Said Institute for Black Muslim Studies & Research (@said_institute ) through our MWF15 Anniversary campaign: bit.ly/MWF15campaign #MWF15 #Rasikh #SelebeYoon #MuslimWellness #HealingJustice

Bismillah. Alhamdulillah. FIFTEEN YEARS. 💚 This Women’s History Month, Muslim Wellness Foundation is honored to mark 15 years of serving our communities with a clear and steady commitment: to center Muslim mental health, healing, and belonging as essential to our thriving - now and into the future. Since 2011, MWF has been at the forefront of shifting the conversation on identity, trauma, and well-being through education, training, research, and community-based partnership. Fifteen years is an incredible milestone for us because it reflects sustained trust, consistent community presence; supporting thousands of people through programs, training, and convenings - while growing an ecosystem of clinicians, faith leaders, cultural workers, and caregivers committed to wellness as a collective responsibility. As we enter this anniversary year, our guiding theme is: Rasikh — What We Carry Forward. Over the next few days, we’ll share: 💫 a Founder Spotlight honoring visionary psychologist Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera (@drmamakam ) 💫 reflections + highlights from our transformative decade and half of Muslim mental health advocacy 💫a BMPC2026 Save-the-Date you won’t want to miss - an amazing gathering that continues to strengthen this field and community of practice. Our deep gratitude to everyone who has built with us over the last 15 years! We’re excited about the future of this work, won’t you celebrate with us? 🎁 Support our MWF 15th anniversary campaign: bit.ly/MWF15campaign #MWF15 #Rasikh #WhatWeCarryForward #MuslimMentalHealth #HealingJustice

*Random Book Recommendation: I Can’t Wait To Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era By Rita Roberts As I deepen my exploration of my own personal history, the lives of enslaved people in the US and Caribbean, the legacy and wisdom of Omar ibn Said (and my family ancestral connection to the same NC county that Omar was enslaved in), I am always moved to tears by what I find in the archives. It’s the level of beauty and care in the face of incomprehensible violence and devastation. The faith and dignity which provides protection against spiritual, physical and psychological abuse. But most importantly, it is the LOVE. Love between mother and child, father and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, friends. That’s what makes me weep - the love. I am so proud to be a descendant of people who had and have this extraordinary capacity to love this way. Read this book! It’s absolutely incredible. 10/10. ❤️

UPDATE #9: Mon Feb 16 THANK YOU FRIENDS! At the close of this campaign on Feb 15, we officially raised $1910 with the help of nearly 45 supporters! This means so much that your love and commitment allowed us to EXCEED our modest goal by $410!! These funds will be used to purchase basic provisions which will facilitate ease for the families of Coppe as Ramadan begins. Thank you again to all those who supported this effort. May the Creator reward you with more than you have shared, and shower mercy on you and those you love! Ameen, amen, Ashe!🤲🏾

UPDATE #8: Friday Feb 13 Dear Friends, Happy Friday/Jumuah Mubarak! Thank you all for the continued support of the Ramadan in Coppe Campaign! We have now raised $1820 ($320 MORE than our original $1500 goal). On behalf of MWF and Said Institute, we deeply appreciate all the donations, shares, prayers and encouragement. The campaign will close on Sunday Feb 15 at 11:59pmCT. Please do continue to donate or share with others. All funds will go to Coppe, with provisions distributed equally to each family in the village during the first week of Ramadan.🙏🏾 bit.ly/ramadanincoppe2026

UPDATE #7: Wed Feb 11 Thank you, thank you, thank you to our supporters (nearly 45 of you!) who helped us raise $260 MORE than our target goal of $1500 - in just NINE days! We will keep the campaign open until Feb 15 and ALL of the funds raised will go towards the purchase of basic Ramadan staples for each of the 50 families residing in Coppe Mangay. My deep gratitude for each person who contributed, shared and prayed for the success of this important campaign. May what you have given be returned to you hundred-fold! 🙏🏾 bit.ly/ramadanincoppe2026 *Campaign will close on Sunday Feb 15, please continue to share and donate.

UPDATE #6: Mon Feb 9 Dear Friends, Alhamdulillah—and thank you!! Between Feb 2 - 8, our community came together and raised $1,660, surpassing our original Ramadan goal of $1,500. Because of your generosity, every one of the approximately 50 families in Coppe—Omar ibn Said’s birth village—will receive essential food provisions for the month of Ramadan. This is a powerful testament to what collective care can accomplish in a short time.  With that said, we have decided to keep the campaign open through February 15 to allow for continued giving. Any additional funds raised will go directly to families in Coppe and will be used to expand what each household receives beyond basic staples. Specifically, additional contributions will allow us to include items such as: Cooking oil, additional grains or legumes, milk or supplemental nutrition for children, extra sugar, tea, or coffee, soaps or basic household goods, where possible. Your continued generosity helps move families from just enough toward greater ease, nourishment, and dignity throughout the month of fasting. This extension also reflects our deeper commitment to reciprocity and relationship. Our work through @mwfnational and the @said_institute is rooted in the belief that remembrance must be paired with care—that honoring history includes tending to the living communities who carry it forward. Supporting families in Coppe during Ramadan strengthens the bonds between Muslim communities on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that is tangible and meaningful. If you have already given, thank you! 🙏🏾 
If you are able to give again—or to share this appeal with someone who may wish to participate—we welcome that support through February 15. May the Creator bless you with abundance, far exceeding all you have contributed or plan to contribute! bit.ly/ramadanincoppe2026

UPDATE #5: Sunday Feb 8 Dear Friends, Alhamdulillah (all praise due to the Creator)! In the last 24 hours, we have now reached 88% of our goal! This was truly a team effort with THIRTY-FIVE (35) different supporters making this possible in only 6 days! You all are incredible! 👏🏾 And now we’re in the last stretch - just $180 from hitting our goal of $1500 which will provide basic Ramadan provisions for the 50 families who reside in the village of Coppe Mangay. Can I get 10 friends to donate $18 so we can hit our goal before Benito Bowl this evening? 🤭 Let’s do it!!! ✊🏾 bit.ly/ramadanincoppe2026

UPDATE #4: Saturday Feb 7 Dear Friends, Toni Morrison wrote in a 1984 essay Rootedness: Ancestor as Foundation, “If anything I do... isn’t about the village or the community or about you, then it isn’t about anything.” I reflect on this quote daily and ask myself: “How much is what I do AND how I serve, about the village, the community, about God? How much is about me, my ego?” I was raised to be self-reliant (to only ask God when I am in need, not others). Yet, I have learned along the way that asking my village is about asking God: vulnerability keeps me humble, keeps me connected, keeps me focused on care and reciprocity. It keeps me focused on US. That’s why this fundraiser is so important to me. To honor Omar’s legacy and his community in Senegal, I must ask the village for support. And this is hard, but necessary. Because it isn’t about me. Each appeal and contribution lifts up his name and OUR shared history. That’s what matters. As of today Feb 7, we have TOGETHER, reached nearly 65% of our goal. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 There are 8 days left to the campaign. I know we can raise another $155 this Saturday to reach 75% of our goal. Can I get 10 friends to donate $15? Please share this campaign with others and pray that it is successful. 🙏🏾 bit.ly/ramadanincoppe2026